Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster

Martin Premoli is Assistant Professor of English at Pepperdine University, in Malibu CA, USA.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Weathering the Superstorm in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Monique Roffey’s Archipelago Chapter 2. Mega-drought and the Unseasonable Youth of Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book Chapter 3. Feline Extinction and Emplotting the Trophic Cascade in Linda Hogan’s Power and Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion CodaBibliography

In a world marked by multiple escalating uncertainties and prone to proliferating ‘abnatural’ disasters, this book makes a compelling case for the capacity of narrative fiction to illuminate their root causes, afford orientation, and discern opportunities for resistance and survival. In so doing Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster admirably exemplifies the particular contribution of ecocritical literary studies, especially in the mode of comparative North-South enquiry, to the interdisciplinary weave of the global environmental humanities.